foreign aid as its leading external non-debt capital and attracts the least remittances, notwithstanding the positive growth … with remittance inflows. This implies remittances are likely to be driven by sound macroeconomic environment in recipient … countries. An affirmation of this finding is that, in SSA, (and, indeed, for all developing economies), remittances are pro …

inflows and the seasonal variations under the impact of the global crisis. The data on remittances are available from the …As a consequence of the increased number of Moldovan migrants, the volume of remittances inflows to Moldova raised … steadily. Previous studies on labor migration and remittances in Republic of Moldova underline both the role of remittances in …

to foreign capital inflow through remittances; remittances represented around 13% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009 … and its remittances sending migrants, e.g. the UNDP's 2010 Kosovo Remittance Study, this discussion paper puts a specific … well as the remittances receiving household in Kosovo. In our analysis of migrant households, we present results on socio …

While measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty … offer evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory—arising from changes in … remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the origin. Net of that cost, there is …

migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants’ education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants’ education level, and source countries’ income … considered in the few studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …

We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying … in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant … value transfer) and negative (via misuse of monetary remittances). Using Gallup Balkan Monitor survey data in instrumental …

frequency of alcohol consumption. We discuss possible mechanisms through which emigration and remittances may affect the alcohol … the two remain underexplored. We study the relationship between emigration of household members, receiving remittances … Russians, the emigration of family members who do not send remittances back home is associated with an increased likelihood and …

This study provides novel evidence on the effects of emigration on pro-environmental behaviour back home. Focusing on …-environmental action and the local-level intensity of a major guestworker emigration wave that occurred four decades earlier. I find that … more intense local-level emigration is associated with a lower likelihood of pro-environmental action; the instrumental …